It is indisputable that school instruction on digital platforms remains a challenge, especially for a country with scarce resources such as ours, including for teachers, students and parents. In general, digitization in education opens remarkable opportunities to facilitate the education...

Majority of children feel like they belong at their school, but think schools don’t pay enough attention to hygiene. The safest place for them to be is home, while the most common form of discrimination at this age is physical...

Smaller schools, except those based in Skopje, can ask for permission to hold in-person classes to all students come October 1, not just to pupils up to third grade, Health Minister Venko Filipche told Radio Free Europe on Sunday.

Minister of Labor and Social Policy Jagoda Shahpaska told a press conference on Thursday that kindergartens are prepared to reopen on September 9, in line with health protocols.

The beginning of the 2020-2021 school year has been delayed by a month for two reasons, according to outgoing Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski in response to reporters’ questions Thursday.

The government decided at its Wednesday session that the new school year in North Macedonia will start on October 1, and asked the Ministry of Education to amend the academic calendar accordingly.

Representatives of the Union of High School Students attended on Tuesday morning a meeting of the Commission for Infectious Diseases, during which they were briefed on the COVID-19 situation in North Macedonia, the Health Ministry said in a press release.

The new school year will start online, except for children up to third grade and schools with fewer students and small class sizes where the epidemiological situation is stable.